Narendra Modi wants to make Northeast ‘Gateway to Southeast Asia’
Addressing Bharat Sevashram Sangha, in Shillong through video conferencing, Narendra Modi lamented that ‘only Gangtok had found a place among the first 50 clean cities’. Photo: PTI
New Delhi/Shillong: The government aims to make Northeast India a gateway to Southeast Asia and was making huge investments for the overall development of the region, but lack of cleanliness could hamper this dream, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Sunday.
“If such a beautiful gateway is unclean, diseased, illiterate or disbalanced, then it will fail to cross the gateway of the country’s development. There is no reason why, with all our resources, we should remain backward or poor,” the Prime Minister said.
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